Finding our links in History - One Genealogist's thoughts, tidbits, and inspirations - All very much randomly posed.
One person's life does not stand-alone but interacts with family, neighbors, community, and history. Our Trees become Tangled just by living. --
T.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

The National Archives (U.S.) has created a power point presentation on using the Archival Research Catalog (ARC) for genealogical research. The ARC is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.
View here: http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/genealogy/arc-demo.pdf

They also offer a second presentation with case studies showing online research on two people using ARC and AAD. The Access to Archival Databases (AAD) provides access to over 85 million historic electronic records created by more than
30 agencies of the U.S. federal government and from collections of donated
historical materials. This collection is continually growing.
View here: http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/start-research/arc-aad-case-studies.pdf